Troubleshoot Chromium Edge displays a blank icon in taskbar

[RoboMan]

Briefly explain your current issue(s)

Since I formatted my drive today and reinstalled Chromium Edge, this happens. The Edge icon is displayed correctly in the taskbar. Uppon pressing it to open a site, it spawns a new blank icon in which Edge is displayed.

Steps taken to resolve, but have been unsuccessful

tried deleting the taskbar icon and re-assigning it from the original Edge launcher and it didn't work. I also uninstalled it and re-installed and it still didn't work.

Since I formatted my drive today and reinstalled Chromium Edge, this happens. The Edge icon is displayed correctly in the taskbar. Uppon pressing it to open a site, it spawns a new blank icon in which Edge is displayed.

I tried deleting the taskbar icon and re-assigning it from the original Edge launcher and it didn't work. I also uninstalled it and re-installed and it still didn't work.

Edge still works but it drives me nervous and I end up cursing BoraMurdar even when he doesn't have anything to do with it.

Any advice?

 

[RoboMan]

Nevermind. Solved by literally hitting my laptop with my head. It threw a scared BSOD and upon reboot it started updating Edge and now works okay. Even the icon is new.

Do not waste time finding an explanation since there is none. My computer is cursed.

Blessings and see you all around.

 

[oldschool]

A browser re-install fixes this sort of thing quite often too.

 

[mlnevese]

Nevermind. Solved by literally hitting my laptop with my head. It threw a scared BSOD and upon reboot it started updating Edge and now works okay. Even the icon is new.

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Do not waste time finding an explanation since there is none. My computer is cursed.

Blessings and see you all around.

It's a good technique for fixing strange bugs in computers. Another proven to work technique is keeping a sledgehammer close to the computer. When it starts to misbehave you show the sledgehammer to the computer while looking at it with a menacing face. You then restart the computer and the bug should go away if the computer still has a wish to live

 

[show-Zi]

The phenomenon that the shortcut icon disappears seems to have occurred frequently since the previous version upgrade. I also happened.

It's a good technique for fixing strange bugs in computers. Another proven to work technique is keeping a sledgehammer close to the computer. When it starts to misbehave you show the sledgehammer to the computer while looking at it with a menacing face. You then restart the computer and the bug should go away if the computer still has a wish to live

No, don't show the hammer, hug it gently.

 

[sirius777]

The new Microsoft Edge Chromium icon doesn't look so nice on my PC. Not completely round. It looks like it's cropped a little bit.

 

[mlnevese]

My stable version is still showing the old icon on notification bar...

 

[ForgottenSeer 77591]

My stable version is still showing the old icon on notification bar...

I had to restart my computer to get the new icons.

 

[mlnevese]

I had to restart my computer to get the new icons.

Restarting didn't change anything to me. Pinning the desktop icon to task bar also does not work, the old icon still shows up.

 

[oldschool]

I re-installed over top, pinned new icon to task bar and old icon appears on launch = 2 different stable icons.

 

[mlnevese]

I re-installed over top, pinned new icon to task bar and old icon appears on launch = 2 different stable icons.

Looks like they updated only the desktop icon. all internal references still point to the old icon. Just look at the right click menu and the old icon is there as well, not the new one.

 

[oldschool]

This is from the Edge Insider Forum:

[IMG alt="josh_bodner"]https://gxcuf89792.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/106167iED786F8A30266D47/image-dimensions/40x40?v=1.0[/IMG]
josh_bodner
replied to HotCakeX
yesterday

@HotCakeX I updated the original release notes post, but I'll mention down here too that there's a known bug for the Task Bar icons not updating properly, and we're going to try to push out a fix for it over the next day or two. There are a few other places that we're also aware of that don't have the proper icons yet (Task Manager, the all apps list in the Start Menu, the Windows Search results pane), but if you find any other places the icons aren't getting updated, please let us know!
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[mlnevese]

This is from the Edge Insider Forum:

[IMG alt="josh_bodner"]https://gxcuf89792.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/106167iED786F8A30266D47/image-dimensions/40x40?v=1.0[/IMG]
josh_bodner
replied to HotCakeX
yesterday

@HotCakeX I updated the original release notes post, but I'll mention down here too that there's a known bug for the Task Bar icons not updating properly, and we're going to try to push out a fix for it over the next day or two. There are a few other places that we're also aware of that don't have the proper icons yet (Task Manager, the all apps list in the Start Menu, the Windows Search results pane), but if you find any other places the icons aren't getting updated, please let us know!
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In other words they hushed the release and didn't properly check the icon was updated everywhere in the code

 

[ForgottenSeer 77591]

I updated through Edge Chromium and had both icons install correctly.Task bar icon was already pinned prior to the new release.Like I posted I did need a restart of my computer.

 

[mlnevese]

Edge was silently updated to version 79.0.309.14 on my machine. It's now displaying te new icon on task bar and context menus.